Analytics for Child Well-Being

Keeping children safe

In many instances of child abuse or neglect, information is available that could help identify high-risk situations before tragedies occur. That's why SAS is combining its industry-leading data management and advanced analytics with proven models that can help save children's lives.

Benefits

Gain a holistic view of all data available for a child.

Get a broader, more comprehensive understanding of a child, as well as the child's home, school or family environment, by accessing and integrating child-related data from all available sources – social services, foster care, education, health services, child support enforcement, criminal justice systems and more.

Improve child outcomes.

Get a clear picture of which services children are receiving, and assess their impact on improving child outcomes. Identify which service or combination of services have the best chance of helping.

Accurately assess a child's risk to keep children safer.

Go beyond traditional risk assessment tools by incorporating quantitative capabilities that can help improve child safety. Important child-related information is continually monitored and updated, and automated alerts notify caseworkers whenever established thresholds are breached so they can intervene promptly to help keep children safe.

Reduce child support delinquency and increase collections.

Provide caseworkers and managers with timely information they can use to proactively improve program outcomes. Reduce child support delinquencies, increase collections, and more efficiently manage hundreds of thousands of cases every year.

SAS® for Child Outcomes Management

Better understand what services children are receiving from state and local governments, as well as nonprofit organizations. Then accurately gauge their impact on improving child outcomes. SAS for Child Outcomes Management applies advanced data management, analytics and data visualization technology to child-related data across a variety of state agencies. With this solution, you can:

Take a more targeted and insightful approach to looking at utilization data from a variety of state and local agencies in entirely new ways.

Analyze outcomes to better understand how effective services are and how big an impact they may have on a child's situation.

Determine which services or combination of services have been most successful in the past and have the highest likelihood of producing desired outcomes.

SAS® for Child Support Services

Get useful, timely information that can help reduce child support delinquency and increase collections. Using advanced data management and predictive analytics, SAS for Child Support Services enables agencies to provide case workers and managers with timely, high-quality information they can use to proactively improve program outcomes. With this solution, you can:

Quickly determine the most effective and efficient ways to manage hundreds of thousands of cases every year.

Identify and predict situations that might result in failure to pay.

Ease the burden of caseload management by distinguishing occasional irregularities in payment from a systematic refusal to pay.

Features

Comprehensive data management. Access child-related data no matter where it is stored – from legacy systems to Hadoop. SAS Data Management is truly integrated, and all components – from data quality to data federation technology – are part of the same architecture.